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They’ll be remembered, not in a good way, as possibly the best Maple Leafs team never to win a playoff series.
Despite changing the blueprint to end a streak of first-round failures, Toronto is once again an early casualty. For the fifth time in the lifespan of the core Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander and Morgan Rielly they were on the wrong side of the handshake line when they couldn’t seal the deal.
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